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Definition of footpace in English:

footpace

noun

1Walking speed.

‘On this spot I saw abundance of plover; and as I walked my horse along at a foot pace, I observed many of the newly hatched young, around which the old birds anxiously hovered, continually resorting to a well-known artifice; and in the hope of alluring an enemy to a false pursuit, limping tenderly away with a flagging wing, as if they were lame.’

‘We came out on the turnpike some hundred yards on the Liphook side of the buildings called the Hut; so that we had the whole of three miles of hill to come down at not much better than a foot pace, with a good pelting rain at our backs.’

‘We'll describe how the Long Trail is a window on Vermont in the 1990's, offering a view from the mountaintops, at foot pace, of environmental and growth-and-development issues facing all of Vermont.’

2A raised section of a floor.

‘The Alpsgreen is an Italian marble, and the footpace is formed of a monolith eight feet long, an unusual size.’

‘Over the footpace of the altar hangs a unique crucifix on which the carved oak corpus leans forward in a spasm of death agony, with its arms grotesquely twisted behind.’

‘I am indebted to Dot Wordsworth's Spectator column for drawing my attention to the wondrous vocabulary of church furnishings - ‘dossals and paenula-shaped chasubles, footpaces and tables of prothesis’.’

‘The footpace in the sanctuary is three tiered, constructed of red oak inlaid in a beautiful pattern.’

‘The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.’

‘In some circumstances it may be possible to completely pave paths using individual steps and footpaces.’

‘Three pillows are placed before the footpace so that the Ministers may lie prostrate before the Altar.’

‘It has the same effect as where the altar is on the same level as the sanctuary sans footpace.’

‘Set in the footpace before the altar is a memorial containing stones brought from St. John's Chapel at Glastonbury, England, and from St. Columba's Monastery on the Island of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides.’

‘The three Ministers stand side by side upon the footpace, the Deacon and Subdeacon turning slightly inwards.’